uncharm

English

Etymology

Verb

uncharm (third-person singular simple present uncharms, present participle uncharming, simple past and past participle uncharmed)

(transitive) To release from a charm, fascination, or secret power; to disenchant.
- 1609–1612, Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher, “The Captaine”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
  she is outwardly / All that bewitches sense, all that entices; / Nor is it in our virtue to uncharm it

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for uncharm in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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